Sentence examples for disingenuous excuse from inspiring English sources

Tessel Pauli, a spokeswoman for the Clean Clothes Campaign, dismissed retailers' worries about civil unrest as a disingenuous excuse to avoid improving safety standards there.

Sonnet 109, for example, is a patently disingenuous excuse offered for Shakespeare's negligence of his lover, and I made a parallel translation from bullshit into English.

As the International Olympic Committee considers whether to select Beijing as the site of the 2008 Olympic Games, it must retreat from its tired, rather disingenuous excuse that the Olympics are about sport, not politics.

That disingenuous excuse is now moot.

This past year was hot without any room for disingenuous excuses.

He was also faced with persistent calls to stop publishing topless pictures on Page 3 and offered disingenuous excuses for refusing to do so.

"New Yorkers don't believe her disingenuous excuses about how she didn't know who her administration's pro-terrorism ambassador of goodwill was.

Clarke was accused of "hiding behind excuses" and of being "disingenuous" after trying to explain why the issue was not raised at the League's annual general meeting in 2013.

On the other, they might be seen as disingenuous, a vehicle for self-deception and excuses.

This is disingenuous claptrap from a government desperate for excuses for failing to deliver the growth it promised.

Stop making excuses and stop the spin (performance comparisons that include the dire performance post Hatfield are disingenuous).